Binary divisions rear their head
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known NEW universities are moving up research ratings faster than their older counterparts...
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Postgraduate rise
The numbers of students gaining postgraduate qualifications rose 17 per cent last year compared with 1994/95, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. 105,500 students gained postgraduate...
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Terms of adjustment
Alan Thomson reports (THES, January 10) that Steve Rouse estimates that a ban on waiver clauses could cost the sector around Pounds 15 million a year. This is certainly a massive exaggeration. There...
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Bequest bottled
A Paris university plagued by a long-running asbestos problem on its Jussieu campus has received some consolation - the first vintage of a wine it inherited from a former researcher has arrived....
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Yale boots out student who forged his grades
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
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PFI fuels bid for Stirling polytechnic
THE first further education project under the Government's Private Finance Initiative has been hailed as a milestone by Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth. The Pounds 3.5 million further education...
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Sell your body bits
Perhaps there is an easy way to avoid the risk of transferred animal diseases while saving money and the lives of those who die while awaiting organ transplants (THES, January 17).A very small...
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Medical medium
Prepare for the latest horror story on health. Ken Begg, senior scientific officer at an Edinburgh University Medical Research Council unit, is about to publish his latest medical thriller. Dr Begg,...
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Spain faces contracts decision
Spanish university leaders are looking for solutions to one of their biggest sources of tension - the status of lecturers on short-term contracts. Established teaching staff are officially civil...
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Don's Diary
Monday Long flight south overnight with a group of colleagues to Mauritius for the summer school of a degree programme we offer there through flexible learning. We are the first flight allowed in for...
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Wake up and get back in the same boat
National interest in the Commonwealth all but evaporated in the 1980s. Displaced by a concentration on European issues and dismissed by a prime minister who regarded the isolation of apartheid as a...
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Ear to the ground
And the Universtiy of Oxford also deserves a pat on the back for omitting nothing in its painstaking construction of a How not to get Planning Permission case-study for its new business school. The...
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Cock-eyed
It is always reassuring when an advert can prove that the people selling a service have a first-hand knowledge of it. So hearty congratulations to Oxford Brookes University for the publicity for its...
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Academy set up for African research
A SCHEME to revitalise research in Africa is to be launched later this year in an effort to generate home-grown solutions to the continent's many problems including conflict, disease, and famine. The...
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College saves with profit-related pay
UNIVERSITY College London is considering a profit-related pay scheme even though tax relief on PRP will soon be phased out. Provost Sir Derek Roberts said the proposal was unrelated to attempts to...